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Abstract:
We present the first study on the acquisition of the Dutch quantitative pronoun er in
sentences such as de vrouw draagt er drie ‘the woman is carrying three.’ There is a
large literature on Dutch children’s interpretation of pronouns and a few recent
production studies, all specifically looking at 3rd person singular pronouns and the
so-called Delay of Principle B effect (Coopmans & Philip, 1996; Koster, 1993;
Spenader, Smits and Hendriks, 2009). However, no one has studied children’s use of
quantitative er. Dutch is the only Germanic language with such a pronoun.
